Buildings

Past, Present and Future of On-Campus Housing

The opening of Orchard Park marks the latest in a series of impactful collaborations between DCM, SHDS, and CPES to expand student housing while prioritizing sustainability, and taking advantage of evolving construction methodology.

Building Excellence

In the past two decades, philanthropic support has played a vital role in funding the construction of state-of-the-art facilities that support UC Davis’ objectives, including providing students with a world-class education and supporting impactful cutting-edge research.

Your House on Campus

Just for the fun of it, we wondered what would it take to renovate your house into a campus facility? Let’s suppose this facility is located on campus and you request that we renovate the living room into a classroom, the kitchen into a lab, and the bedroom into an office. Let’s take a walk through your house to see what we will need to do.

Why Does It Cost So Much?

UC Davis Design and Construction management provides increasingly complex facilities under shortening timelines and proliferating code and regulatory requirements. Underpinning our efforts to meet these challenges, we continue to hear the same question echoed by our governing boards, administration and customers: “Why does is cost so much?"

Drab to Fab

As UC Davis welcomes more and more students to campus, Design and Construction Management has been hard at work building new and upgrading old classroom space to provide the best environments for teaching and learning.  

Bring in the Reinforcements

In 2020, UC Davis completed seismic evaluations for all of its 1,186 buildings. Since the evaluation process started, renovations and construction on 12 buildings at the Davis campus have commenced, ensuring compliance with the new seismic standard. Another 150 buildings have ratings requiring further study and possible seismic improvement — all of which must be completed by 2030 to meet UC requirements. 

Building Sustainably

For the past three years, University of California Davis has been ranked the most sustainable university in the country by GreenMetric World University Rankings. Design and Construction Management plays an important role in building and maintaining a sustainable university with every project it undertakes.